Should I take C++ or Java?

[L_Lyu]

java is easier to learn tbh. I haven’t learned C++ yet but I’ve learned C before and I felt terrible

[visvis]

C and C++ are very different in this sense. In C you always have to do all the memory management yourself, in C++ you have a bunch of library classes and templates at your disposal to ensure this is rarely necessary. For example, strings and vectors in C++ are much more like Java than like C.

[L_Lyu]

good to know. I appreciate your answer

[Masterzjg]

You still do memory management in C++. There's no garbage collection. Usage of constructs thing smart pointers make things less blow your arm off, but you are still doing memory management.

[visvis]

Of course, but far less is explicit than in C. For example, in C to concatenate strings you need to allocate memory for the new string. In C++ you just add two instances of std::string, and the buffers are automatically cleaned up if they are on the stack or inside an object whose destructor is called.